From owner-freebsd-net Thu Sep 30 22:50: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED9714D4A for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:49:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id WAA68217; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:49:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:49:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: spork Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPPoE In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think I may be tackling PPPoE in the next week. On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, spork wrote: > It seems more and more ADSL providers in the US are moving from bridged > IP over ethernet to PPP over Ethernet as they dump whatever clunky > solutions they started with and move to the RedBack "subscriber management > system". The idea it seems is to simulate the familiar dialup connection. > This lets you hand out dynamic addresses, dump idle users, discourage > servers, track usage, hamper NAT, and (the relevant part) discourage > people from connecting with anything but "supported" OS's. > > Is there anyone actively working on PPPoE for FreeBSD? I don't like the > whole concept of wrapping so many frames inside each other, but it would > be a shame if a bunch of folks with FBSD gateways for their home nets had > to move to Win98 and its' ICS (Internet Connection Sharing). Blech. > > Could user/kernel ppp be modified? How does this work anyhow? Is there > an ethernet frame type for PPPoE? How close do you have to get to the > ethernet driver to send PPPoE frames? Can any existing PPP implementations > easily handle a few megabits/sec on older hardware? > > Thanks, > > Charles > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message